Tag: Waco

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Talk of civil war has been increasing lately, both on the Right and the Left. The topic seems to trend on X every few weeks and Netflix released a movie called Civil War earlier this year. More recently, a debate on Tim Pool’s Culture War podcast between Scott Greer and Rudyard Lynch focused on the subject. Lynch, a well-spoken 23-year-old who has recently begun to appear on various Dissident Right podcasts, claims that there will be “thousands of deaths” related to political violence in the United States by April of 2025. (more…)

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See also: “Waco: The Incident that Kickstarted the Right”

Waco: The Aftermath, which follows 2018’s miniseries Waco and was made by the same production team, is a historical-fiction miniseries that examines the cultural impact of the FBI’s calamitous 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian “compound” in Waco, Texas which ended with a raid on April 19, 1993 in which 76 civilians were killed. The miniseries has three plotlines. The first centers on the criminal trial involving Branch Davidian Clive Doyle (John Hoogenakker) and his lawyer Dan Cogdell (Giovanni Ribisi), as well as co-defendants Ruth Riddle (Kali Rocha), Livingstone Fagan (Michael Luwoye), and Paul Fatta (Nicholas Kolev). (more…)